This thesis focuses on the development of sample-preparation methods for small amounts of samples and applying the developed methods to muscle tissues to investigate the mechanisms involved in sarcopenia.

De afdeling Staats- en Bestuursrecht van de Universiteit Leiden heeft een bundel gepubliceerd over de vraag of de historisch gegroeide combinatie van de concepten van democratische legitimiteit en de scheiding van machten mogelijk blijft buiten de context van de traditionele staat, en indien dit mogelijk…

Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Hadassah Drukarch en Bart Custers van eLaw - Centrum voor Recht en Digitale Technologie, onderzoeken met Pranav Khanna , eLaw alumnus, de invloed van automatisering op de interactie tussen mens en robot en verantwoordelijkheid bij chirurgische innovatie.

In this thesis, we developed new ways to use a technique called electroextraction (EE) to extract charged molecules from one liquid into another using an electric field.

Bacteria are highly complex and diverse organisms that have adapted to survive in ecological niches ranging from the most extreme to the most heterogeneous environments.

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Op 13 mei 2024 gaf Carlotta Rigotti een presentatie tijdens WOROBET 2024, een workshop gewijd aan robotethiek die deel uitmaakte van de IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2024 in Yokohama (Japan). Haar presentatie genaamd “Ensuring sexual safety in human-machine interactions,

Promoter: Ed F. Deprettere, Co-promoter: Todor P. Stefanov

Understanding how galaxies form, interact, and evolve comes largely from comparing theory predictions with observational data. Numerical simulations of galaxies provide the most accurate approach to testing the theory, as they follow the non-linear evolution of gas and dark matter in great detail and…

The aims of the project are to: further clarify 'inhibition by safety'; explore and describe all possible sagety factors, with a special focus on the primary human safety source: social connectedness; reviewing prolonged stress responses without stressors.

Promotor: C.A.J. Knibbe, Co-promotores: H.P.A. van Dongen, B. van Ramshorst

BlaC is the β-lactamase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We show that it can recover from inhibition by clavulanic acid and that phosphate helps it do so.

Promotor: J. Zaanen, Co-Promotor: V. Juricic

Het voorgestelde project evalueert hoe de kwetsbaarheid van migrantenmannen en -vrouwen werd geconstrueerd in politieke, publieke en mediadiscoursen, en hoe verschillen in de geconstrueerde kwetsbaarheid van invloed waren op de beslissing om te migreren, het migratieproces en het daaropvolgende vest…

In unconventional high temperature superconductors, supercurrent vortices are known to spoil the Landau levels. In this thesis the emergence of Landau levels is studied in different types of superconductors: Weyl superconductors, and the Fu-Kane heterostructure.

Consequences for sediment stability and seston trapping

Promotor: K.E. Schalm, Co-promotor: S.S. Lee

Op 28 oktober 2021 verdedigde Hein van der Bruggen zijn proefschrift en behaalde daarmee de doctorstitel.

The name ‘Jambi flora’ refers to fossil plants found as part of a rock formation from the Early Permian (296 million years old), located in the Jambi Province of Sumatra, Indonesia.

Big Science, commonly defined as conventional science made big in three dimensions, namely organizations, machines, and politics, brings a plethora of different stakeholders together, often for a long period of time. This includes policymakers, scientists, (scientific) managers as well as local “host”…

Development of GHG calculator for bio-electricity and heat.

CREEA is a FP7 project on compiling and refining environmental and economic accounts. The project runs from April 2011 to March 2014.

We investigate the buildup of galaxies from various vantage points. The first two chapters focus on the stellar content of galaxies, especially the distribution of stellar masses at birth and potential variations therein in various galactic environments.

Plant architecture has distinct forms in different plant species, but also within a species the finalarchitecture of a plant is determined by its gradual development and changes therein induced by environmental conditions during the plant’s life cycle.

A management strategy has been developed for field margins to reduce pesticide drift to non-target areas and to promote biodiversity on arable land. To this end, 3 and 6 m wide strips along the edges of winter wheat, sugar beet and potato crops have been left unsprayed with herbicides and insecticides…

Sewer pipes are an essential infrastructure in modern society and their proper operation is important for public health. To keep sewer pipes operational as much as possible, periodical inspections for defects are performed.

In deep reinforcement learning, searching and learning techniques are two important components. They can be used independently and in combination to deal with different problems in AI, and have achieved impressive results in game playing and robotics. These results have inspired research into artificial…

We developed the bitterling as a unique, well-studied model organism in the area of the evolutionary ecology of brood parasitism. The bitterling-mussel relationship, interspecific mussel host preference, and mussel gill structure are studied in detail, to help understand the developmental adaptation…

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.A. Bouwstra, Co-promotor: A. El Ghalbzouri

Electrocatalysis allows for storing electricity or converting it into chemical bonds, producing chemical building blocks and fuels using renewable resources.

Van Galileo Galilei tot Albert Einstein, van Anna Maria van Schurman tot Anton de Kom: het is slechts een greep uit 25 auteurs die met hun boeken en ideeën een buitengewone invloed hebben gehad op de wereld, soms zelf tot nu. De Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden en het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden organiseren…

Het was weer gezellig druk in het Rijksmuseum van Oudenheden! Op 22 juni is de zomertentoonstelling ‘Books that made History’ van Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden (UBL) en het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (RMO) geopend. In de tentoonstelling zijn 25 Leidse boeken uit de collecties van de UBL te zien die…

Promotor: H.J.M. de Groot

Development of indicators to assess decoupling of economic development and environmental pressure in the EU-25 and AC-3 countries.

Computational thinking, programming, and algorithms form the basic of many of the things that are shaping our world, the way we work, interact, organize ourselves, and even spend our free time with social networks, streaming media, and games. And this transformation is far from being complete, it is…

What is the effect of light at night on plant phenology and physiology, and how does this affect plant interactions with other species?

LIACS is a partner in the EU Erasmus+ Curriculum Development for the Asian education system. The knowledge available in the field of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence education will be shared and adapted for the Asian market.

Promotores: S.J. Edixhoven, P.Parent

In June 2024, the University of Groningen organizes a summer school, titled "Things that Matter". The Summer School explores challenges in digitizing source materials, questioning distinctions between physical and digital copies. It delves into the impact of virtual collections and criteria for digitization,…

For questions and suggestions regarding the series, please contact prof. dr. Olaf van Vliet or dr. Max van Lent

In de serie tafelgesprekken ‘Van kluis naar kussen’ krijgt de kijker een blik achter de schermen van de Bijzondere Collecties. In deze speciale uitzending staat de zomertentoonstelling 'Books that made History' van de Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden en het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden centraal. In de…

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Wat zijn de belangrijkste thema's in het uitvoeren van systemen voor bio-energie ?

Promotores: G.R. de Snoo, B. Sinsin, Co-Promotor: H.H. de Iongh

Op Things That Talk, een website opgericht en ontwikkeld door Fresco Sam-Sin, beschrijven studenten en onderzoekers objecten van vandaag en lang geleden. Inmiddels zijn meer dan honderd objecten aan bod gekomen. Willemijn Waal, Emma Verweij en Frank van den Boom werken mee aan de content.

Presents a novel philosophical account of psychedelic experiences, arguing that they can be induced by means other than psychedelics — such as meditation and yoga.